I Like Books

[sophieisgod]

I really do love Borders. At home, the bookshops don't stay open until 10 selling coffee. Anyway, last night, in a moment of weakness, I decided to succumb to the 3 for 2 offer. It wasn't my fault. It was flaunting itself like a cheap hussy, with stickers and everything.

I really haven't been reading as much as I usually do, which makes me feel guilty and unintelligent, so I'm going the whole hog. Thus, a reading list to alleviate said guilt.


3 FOR 2
1. Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
1940s, architecture and it was slightly cheaper than Atlas Shrugged.

2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years Of Solitude
J'adore Love In The Time of Cholera, and a family tree at the beginning of a book is a very good sign.

3. Zoe Heller, Notes On A Scandal
Underage sex is always a fun read.

STUFF I ALREADY OWN AND HAVEN'T GOT ROUND TO... BUT I WILL
4. Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
Because Bright Young Things makes me happy, in a beautifully depressing sort of way

5. Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
Because The Secret History was really rather warped. Also, it won the 2003 WH Smith Literary Award. That's gotta count for something...

6. AS Byatt, Possession
I'm halfway through, and I really am going to finish it. I just have to cast Gwynneth Paltrow from my mind.

7. James Joyce, Ulysses
As an English Lit student, it shames me not to have read this yet.

8. Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Because I love me some myths.
(Side note: Stardust is out on 23rd March! I am greatly pleased by this!)

9. Bob Dylan, Chronicles
Because he makes me want to cry.

GENERAL THINGS I SHOULD HAVE READ BY NOW, YET SOMEHOW HAVEN'T
10. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
11. Toni Morrison, Beloved
12. Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
13. Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
14. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
15. Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night
17. Frank Miller, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
18. Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
19. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
20. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master And Margarita



And yes, I totally ripped off half of these from Gilmore Girls.

Comments

[thedreamygirl.livejournal.com]

tsk tsk Sophie. J'adore Borders. I can spend hours there and not want to leave. It smells so pretty.

[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

It does. If it wasn't frowned upon, I would rub my face in the new book smell.

Also, it has a Paperchase, where pretties are sold.

[darkangsty42.livejournal.com]

Crime and Punishment is over-the-moon phenomenal.

[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

It's definitely one of the ones I have to read sooner, rather than later. I tried when I was, like, eleven, but I couldn't stand the heat, and therefore removed myself from the Russian kitchen. I feel shamed.

And it makes me angry that the sexy John Simm adaptaion isn't on DVD.

[darkangsty42.livejournal.com]

THERE'S A MOVIE OF IT?

[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

Not quite. A fucking good BBC TV adaptaion from 2002.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307734/

Did I mention it was fucking good?

[rose-greenthumb.livejournal.com]

You make me feel so uncultured!!!

I went to Borders today actually but I didn't buy anything because it was full of stupid people and I'd forgotten my book voucher. Plus I have many, many things I still need to read sitting in my room.

[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

You, uncultured? Little Miss RSC? Don't make me laugh, bitterly.

Although you still need a better end-of-time book. I'm not buying it.

Also, a Flopsy userpic, just for you. Because he is so very very pretty.